Title:
Bolshoi confidential : secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today / Simon Morrison.
Author:
Morrison, Simon Alexander, 1964- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
©2016
Call Number:
GV1786.B64 M67 2016
Abstract:
A history of the Bolshoi Ballet from its dubious beginnings in 1776 to the present, exploring its political ties and importance under various Russian regimes and how it came to define both Russian culture and ballet itself.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780871402967
Physical Description:
xxix, 507 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Corporate Subject:
Contents:
The swindling magician -- Napoleon and after -- Fleet as lightning: the career of Ekaterina Sankovskaya -- Imperialism -- After the Bolsheviks -- Censorship -- I, Maya Plisetskaya -- Epilogue.
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